[wildfly-dev] WildFly nightly builds

[Jason Greene]

I like Proposal #1.  

> On Sep 6, 2017, at 7:42 AM, Rostislav Svoboda <rsvoboda at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi.
> 
> https://developer.jboss.org/thread/224262 announced availability of WildFly nightly builds.
> 
> Current status is that you must know the URL based on current version in master
> At this moment it is https://ci.wildfly.org/guestAuth/repository/download/WF_Nightly/latest.lastFinished/wildfly-11.0.0.Final-SNAPSHOT.zip, root dir of the zip is wildfly-11.0.0.Final-SNAPSHOT
> 
> '11.0.0.Final-SNAPSHOT' is the changing part and when you want to consume nightly build in CI (e.g. Travis) you end up doing unnecessary changes to .travis.yml (Alpha1-SNAPSHOT ==> Beta1-SNAPSHOT ==> Final-SNAPSHOT) when PRs fail because of unavailable nightly bits
> 
> I would like to make automated consumption of WildFly nightly builds easier
> 
> Proposal 1 - expose latest bits under the same URL + keep the same root dir name
>  URL:                  https://ci.wildfly.org/guestAuth/repository/download/WF_Nightly/latest.lastFinished/wildfly-latest-SNAPSHOT.zip
>  root dir of the zip:  wildfly-latest-SNAPSHOT
> 
> Automation would be prepared just once and "work forever".
> 
> 
> Proposal 2 - keep current zip & root dir name + add txt file with version information
>  introduce https://ci.wildfly.org/guestAuth/repository/download/WF_Nightly/latest.lastFinished/version.txt
>  Currently it would contain '11.0.0.Final-SNAPSHOT'
>    Example to get version: mvn help:evaluate -Dexpression=project.version | grep -v "^\["
> 
> Automation could consume content of version.txt and construct the download URL + root dir name
>  VERSION=`curl https://ci.wildfly.org/guestAuth/repository/download/WF_Nightly/latest.lastFinished/version.txt`
>  https://ci.wildfly.org/guestAuth/repository/download/WF_Nightly/latest.lastFinished/wildfly-${VERSION}.zip
>  root dir of the zip is wildfly-${VERSION}
> 
> 
> WDYT?
> 
> Regards.
> Rostislav
> 
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Jason T. Greene
Chief Architect, JBoss EAP
Red Hat

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